Conference: Agenda

THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2024

10:00 AM–10:30 AM

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

J. Steven Leeder, PharmD, PhD, Children’s Mercy Research Institute

Mark Hoffman, PhD, Children’s Mercy Research Institute

10:30 AM – 11:30

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Harry Caufield, PhD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Finding Harmony Between Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Informatics

11:30 AM–1:00 PM

LUNCH & POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Poster presenters will provide a 30-second overview of their research to the entire group of attendees.

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

DATA STRUCTURE & STANDARDS

Moderator: Harlen Hays, MPH, Cardinal Health

Andrea Gaedigk, PhD, MS, Children’s Mercy Research Institute
PharmVar: Defining Pharmacogene Variation

Timothy Haithcoat, PhD, University of Missouri
Chasing Context: What Should We Know, How Can It Be Integrated

Theodore White, PhD, University of Missouri-Kansas City
A Perspective on How Fungal Icd Codes Reflect Clinical Realities

Student: Edward Bird, Kansas State University
BALROG – A Nextflow Pipeline for Metagenomic Surveillance of Antimicrobial-Resistance

PANEL DISCUSSION

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

DATA VISUALIZATION

Moderator: Martina Clarke, PhD, University of Nebraska Omaha

Marc Libault, PhD, University of Missouri
Towards a System-Level Understanding of Soybean-Rhizobia Symbiosis at the Single Cell Level

Sanjiv Bhatia, PhD, University of Missouri – St. Louis
AuPAIr: Automated Precipitation Aware Irrigation

Yugyung Lee, PhD, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Unsupervised Segmentation with SAM and LLMs for Explainable Medical Image Analysis for Cancer and Alzheimer’s Detection

Student: Kun-Yi Chen, University of Missouri
SuGA-DRL: Continuously Blood Pressure Control Algorithm for Ischemic Stroke Patients

PANEL DISCUSSON

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

BREAK

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

SYSTEMS STRATEGIES

Moderator: Dong Pei, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center

Lindsey Jarrett, PhD, Center for Practical Bioethics
AI in Healthcare- Balancing Risk and Opportunity

Elebeoba May, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
System Models of Infection Response in Individuals with Comorbidities

Sanzhen Liu, PhD, Kansas State University
Decoding Genomes of a Wheat Blast Pathogen

Katya Mack, PhD, University of Kansas
Allele-Specific Expression Reveals Genetic Drivers of Tissue Regeneration in Mice

PANEL DISCUSSION

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM

CAREER PANEL

Moderator: Emily Haas, BioNexus KC

Joshua Koni, MS, Children’s Mercy Research Institute

Stacy Farr, PhD, MPH, Saint Luke’s Health System

Dana Nayduch, PhD, USDA-ARS

Lee Zuvanich, Adva Digital Solutions

5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

NETWORKING & DINNER

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2024

7:30 AM–8:00 AM

BREAKFAST

8:00 AM–8:10 AM

WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS

Mark Hoffman, PhD, Children’s Mercy Research Institute

8:10 AM – 9:00 AM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Maia Hightower, MD, Equality AI
Responsible AI in Healthcare: A Practical Approach

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

DATA ANALYSIS / AI

Moderator: Gayla Olbricht, PhD, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Paul de Figueiredo, PhD, Christopher S Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri
Microbial Medicines for Addressing Human Disease

Petruța Caragea, PhD,  Iowa State University
F(unctional) ANOVA for Data with Complex Dependence and its Application to Satellite-derived Vegetation Indexes

Amit Noheria, MBBS, SM, University of Kansas Medical Center
AI interpretation of ECGs

Student: Elissa Zakharia, University of Kansas Medical Center
Insights for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Prediction using Machine Learning

PANEL DISCUSSION

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

BREAK

10:30 AM–11:30 AM

IMAGE ANALYSIS

Moderator: Irina Pushel, PhD, Children’s Mercy Research Institute

Joe Shaffer, PhD, Kansas City University
Improving Interpretability Using Randomized Input Sampling (Rise)

Jiwoong Choi, PhD, University of Kansas School of Medicine
What Happens in Your Lungs: Quantitative CT, Computational Physics, and Machine Learning

Raj Logan, PhD, Wichita State University
Cell and Tissue Live Imaging: Challenges and Opportunities

Student: Luciana Castellano, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Codon-Dependent Regulation of Gene Expression During Dengue Virus Infection

PANEL DISCUSSION

11:30 AM–12:30 PM

DATA APPLICATION

Moderator: Sharlee Climer, PhD, University of Missouri – St. Louis

Mark Clements, MD, PhD, Children’s Mercy
The Rising T1DE Alliance: A Transformational Initiative to Improve Type 1 Diabetes Care

Scott Swain, PhD, Cardinal Health
The Strategic Role of Real-World Data in Medicine

Joel Burken, PhD, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Talking to the Trees – Phytoforensics & Human Pollutant Exposure!

Justin Hutchison, PhD, University of Kansas
SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Measurements Normalized Using Biomarkers

PANEL DISCUSSION

12:30 PM

GRAB & GO LUNCH